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Friday, June 29, 2012

The Library Monitor

The Library Monitor

In my last year of primary school i was a library Monitor - I spent my childhood reading everything i could get my hands on, and so to me, this was the most prestigious honour! (No wonder everyone thought i was such a nerd.)

Our duties were to to put books away neatly on their correct shelves and to scan the barcodes when people wanted to borrow books at lunchtime. Sometimes we abused our priveleges by photocopying our hands for fun. I remember eating many tuna sandwiches (swapped with my friend Hayley for my boring Vegemite ones) and being in love with Anthony Browne picture books at this time.

This is also dedicated to my mother whom i love so dearly, and who now works as the school librarian in that same library where i first learned to love to read.

28 comments:

for real it is my dream job to become a school librarian. I'm stuck in the boring law and commerce devision at one of wellington universities at the moment. But they're still students. So it's kind of the same. And some of them are very cute. In a more manly way though.

You should go for it! You can't perve on handsome young adult students, but I think my mum has a lot of fun in the library - doing crafts and decorating the library and making posters and ordering the most divinely illustrated books and all that jazz.That being said, it's hard work though. She's doing a postgrad librarian degree right now and it stesses her out big time, which is hard to see.

Yeah, I think that I need to take a couple years off uni before I do more study. I was thinking of doing a teaching diploma but man, there are no jobs for teachers in New Zealand. And to be honest I think being the librarian would be way cooler. It's the kind of thing that I'm going to look at where I'm at in like 3-4 years and then see what I feel like doing. The future seems way to far away at the moment. I'm trying to to think about it. I officially became a mid-twenties girl this year. :/ gettin' old, gettin' old!

Caitlin, as much as I love all of your work, this one truly made my heart leap! I worked at a library when I was in high school and I looked exactly like this!! Haircut and all. I also said all of these speech bubbles at one time or another. Thanks for the memories!